A good substitute for Hyperterminal is AbsoluteTelnet from Celestial Software. Not only does it support telnet and serial connections as hyperterminal did, but it also supports SSH, which is a better security choice. It has a tabbed interface, advanced security, and is translated into seven languages!

I recently found a terminal which could be used as a replacement for putty. It’s called ClearTerminal and it’s free and can be downloaded from ” http://www.clearconnex.com/content/clearterminal “.
It seems fairly simple and easy to use and at the same time has many good features which are not freely available otherwise.